Thanx - Re: Installing UniBasic on ES 3.0

[gerry nix]

--- Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> gerry nix wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >  
> > Hope this is not too off-topic.  I have to install UniBasic
> > runtime on ES 3.0. It comes with a (what I think we used to
> > call a "!@*%&!" Dongle)... A box that plugs into a serial port
> > to give "full functionality" to the software.
> >  
> > I suppose I'll have to add a line in /etc/inittab to get the
> > OS to "talk to" the serial port. Printed on the box, it only
> > says it is set for 19200.  Should the following work?
> >  
> > /sbin/agetty 19200 /dev/ttyS1
> 
> You shouldn't have to do anything.  No changes to /etc/inittab.  No
> spawning of gettys.  Nothing.
> 
> > Or do I need to add the -i -n to supress /etc/issue and login
> > prompt? When I do the former at the command line, the process
> > is started. When I add the -i -n, it blows me off the system.
> 
> If you must do this, use "ttyS1" not "/dev/ttyS1" (see the man
> page).
> Also, the use of "-n" will prevent the system from determining the
> parity character size, stop bit or end-of-line handling and will
> default
> to space parity, 7-bit characters, 2 stop bits, and CR eol handling
> (can
> you say ancient UUCP settings?).
> 
> The software should open the serial port and verify that you have
> the
> farking dongle installed.  You shouldn't have to do anything like
> spawn
> a getty to the serial port or log into the thing.  It's just a
> "proof
> of purchase", anti-pirating geegaw.  If you have to tell the
> software
> which serial port the thing is on, the first serial port (COM1 in
> the
> DOS world) is /dev/ttyS0, the second (COM2) is /dev/ttyS1.
> 
> If you're telling us that you have to plug a serial terminal into
> the
> dongle and log in that way to use the package, hoo boy!  I'd really
> get
> on the morons who wrote it and tell them that this is the 21st
> century
> and we like GUIs to develop code in.  Requiring one to use a VT100
> or
> ADM-3 over a serial port to use their software is spectacularly
> stupid.
> That is 1970's technology.  90% of the companies that used such
> silly
> things (dongles, key disks, etc.) are long-since dead.  Good
> riddance,
> too.

Rick,
Thanks for the feedback. No serial terminal required (thank
goodness). It's what the client has and what I have to use. 
There's really no documentation. If the software "finds the 
farking thing" I be as happy as [deleted expletive].

Totally ancient technology... Yes. Something p--s a guy off,
who has real stuff to do :-).
--
Nix
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